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2006 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards This forum is for the 2006 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards.
You can now vote for your favorite products of 2006. This is your chance to be heard! Voting ends February 18th.

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View Poll Results: Video Media Player Application of the Year
mplayer 618 41.93%
xine 210 14.25%
Totem 72 4.88%
Gstreamer 16 1.09%
VLC 306 20.76%
Ogle 6 0.41%
Helix 11 0.75%
kaffeine 235 15.94%
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Old 12-30-2006, 04:41 PM   #1
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Video Media Player Application of the Year


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A new category this year.

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Old 12-30-2006, 06:14 PM   #2
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Can we have an option for RealPlayer please?
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Old 12-30-2006, 06:20 PM   #3
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I'd say Helix is the best representation of Real on Linux. If there is sufficient demand we can also add the traditional "Real" player, but I left it off since it's based on Helix.

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Old 12-30-2006, 08:12 PM   #4
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I use gxine and mplayer but I do prefer gxine. It's just very simple to use and doesn't get in my way at all. Since gxine is based on xine, xine gets my vote.
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Old 12-31-2006, 06:35 AM   #5
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VLC BABY!

I just couldn't live without being able to retranscode anything I can watch. Plus it can play almost everything.
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Old 12-31-2006, 06:48 AM   #6
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kaffeine and I must admit the only other one I have tried is Helix
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Old 12-31-2006, 04:51 PM   #7
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VLC for me, though i must say i don't dislike mplayer. But VLC just rox if you ask me.
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Old 12-31-2006, 07:49 PM   #8
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Kaffeine yes. Mplayer is a close second.
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Old 01-01-2007, 12:24 AM   #9
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VLC is for me...and mplayer.
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Old 01-01-2007, 06:42 AM   #10
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mplayer is the best for me, it play anything I have
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Old 01-01-2007, 11:41 AM   #11
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Xine for simplicity, Mplayer for multi-videotype-support..

I'll flip a coin for which one I shall vote for..

Heads = xine
Tails = mplayer

and the result is..

TAILS.. Congratulation Mplayer, you got my vote!
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Old 01-01-2007, 09:34 PM   #12
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Thumbs up KMplayer

This year I started using KMplayer. I like it because it is small and fast and the user interface gives as much room as possible to video. Too bad you don't have KMplayer on the list, so I voted for Kaffeine which I was using before KMplayer.
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Old 01-01-2007, 10:03 PM   #13
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Mplayer once you put all the codecs on it.
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Old 01-02-2007, 01:06 AM   #14
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In fact, I love kmplayer, but no option for it here.
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Old 01-02-2007, 04:09 AM   #15
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Voted for MPlayer.
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